is scrapbooking environmentally unfriendly?

yeah, some scrapbooks from Prints are expensive, and the acid free covers that come with them. but with shrewd buying it can be not so expensive. with the 40% discounts, sometimes it gets me thinking that there are 40% markups to the cost price! the problem with scraps for scraps is that if you want it to last, the scraps have to be acid free. otherwise if it comes into contact with your photos they will yellow with time.

But if you save every place else on your supplies and embelishments, add the 40% off coupon, the cost per album is acceptable. When all else fails, get a 3 ring binder, page protectors and you got it made cheap as humanly possible!

No it isn't costly to scrapbook. It used to be when it hit its hay-day, but now that it is more common adn known about - pretty reasonable. Yes the albums themselves can be a bit high, but there are other ways to get appropriate albumes, plus if you watch sales and the 40% off coupons at some craft stores, you can get them quite reasonable. Watch scrapbook related web sites and stores. I have a blog Scrapbook for Box Tops and I give away free scrapbooking embellishments in exchnage for Box Tops 4 Education labels that you send me. Link in my profile. So your trash (as you throw away the box with the label) can be turned into treasures! Watch other sites nad pick up their sale days. I use to watch several sites, and at the end of the month just shop their clearance section - great deals! Watch dollar racks at Target and Walmart and those stores. Dollar Stores have quite a bit now! And I also have an article about where to find embellishments and supplies that are literally free or so low cost, you just didn't know where to look - Scrapbook Layout Ideas - link in my profile. Ever checked your junk drawers for stuff? or the hardware store? or yard sales? Lot of stuff out there for cheap to nothing. YOu just have to want to find it.

I do agree. like the recent conference on climate change in bali. all that first class flights for world leaders to go there and talk, and they can't agree on the wording! anyway, i guess we should just do our part. if we use more paper in scrapbooking, maybe we can use a few lesser plastic bags. haha.

Oh my goodness don't get me started on plastic bags...we have laws about plastic bags as they say they end up in the bay and end up in drains and so forth well that is well and good but these days nearly all celebrations done by Government departments and sporting events these days it is fashionable to let thousands of balloons fly into the blue horizone, where do these smart people think the balloons end up...in the very same place the plastic bags end up...oh they are smart...

Since we bought our own bags to use at the grocery store, we have really reduced the amount of bags that have stocked up in the broom closet.

you're right abt digi scrapping. but somehow I prefer the paper ones... the texture and the pop out effect of embellishments are just not recreated in a digi layout.

You are right. Paper scrapbooking has its own followers and appeal. You can't feel the real 3-D effects in electronic scrapbooking, but in the electronic form, you can play around with many text fonts, shadow effects, etc. and the amount of textures at your disposal are plentiful, so I would say that the electronic form has its own appeal too.

that's a cool idea. I don't think they have that system going in my country. although recently i made some cards to sell for charity...

you're right! we use every inch cos it costs money! :)

i suppose you could shred it up, and stick it as decoration or use it in a shaker box?? ideas! :)

don't get me wrong. I Luuurrrvvveeeee scrapbooking. a total addict myself. just having some pangs of conscience you know... staring at my growing stash... at least some of it is going into making christmas cards this season!

yes! i use the 'remainder' of my foam dots too! they are great for little cutouts!